Law and society, sociology of law

Mobile technology offers an innovative and cost-effective channel for delivering a range of financial services, including mobile payments.

This handbook provides comprehensive and expert analysis of the impact of the Brexit process and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on existing and future EU-UK relations within the context of both EU and international law.

This volume closely examines a single canonical article and how it continues to shape the future of sociolegal studies.

One of the principal arguments put forth by Brexit supporters is that by freeing the UK from the stranglehold of EU law, the country will be able to expand its markets through increased bilateral trade and enhance economic growth.

This treatise is used by attorneys and judges throughout California as a comprehensive resource on evidentiary and constitutional issues.

This book presents a cohesive theory of gay life under straight domination.

Whether you're new to higher education, coming to legal study for the first time or just wondering what Evidence Law is all about, Beginning Evidence is the ideal introduction to help you hit the ground running.

The first comprehensive study of Chilean constitutional history in the English language.

This book examines the use and impact of Australian Indigenous sentencing courts in response to Indigenous partner violence.

This volume considers whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that recognize the histories and values of different countries.

Contract Law in Perspective complements 'black letter' treatments of contract by looking at legal doctrine and statutes in their social, political and economic contexts.

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its revelation.

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

This book studies the political role that public interest litigation has come to play in contemporary India.

Rethinking Rape Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary rape laws, across a range of jurisdictions.

This book is an essential clinician's guide to understanding, unpacking, treating, and healing individual, familial, and communal wounds associated with parental incarceration.

This collection considers human rights and incarceration in relation to the liberal-democratic states of Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

First published in 1998, this volume drew upon a variety of primary and secondary sources from a number of academic disciplines.

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions.

Combining analyses of feminist legal theory, legal doctrine, and feminist social movements, The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States offers a comprehensive overview of U.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of Geographical Indications (GI) in the Indian context with particular reference to the handloom sector.

This book analyses and investigates the neutral legal formulae of the English common law and the Italian and French civil law traditions, together with those used in international settings such as the European Union.

A comparative analysis ''from below'' of attempts to constitutionalise socio-economic rights in Ireland from 1848 rebellions to present day protests.

Lawmaking by international organizations has enormous influence over world trade and national economies.

In the context of the 2016 presidential election, which was rife with charges of sexist actions, this book explains how common such behavior is among executives, why law doesn't protect victims, and how female professionals can bring change.

This book analyses the Habitats Directive; one of the most prominent piece of EU environmental legislation of the past decades.

The role of religion as a contentious and motivating force in society is examined here through the lens of the church-state dynamic in countries with three very different approaches to this crucial relationship.

This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.

Essential Land Law for SQE1 explains the key principles of Land law in a clear, easy-to-follow style.

Vulnerability theory offers an alternative to social-contract and rights-based paradigms.

Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage?

Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system.

La presente obra constituye el resultado final de un Proyecto de Investigación que bajo el mismo título dirige la investigadora principal, Mar Jimeno Bulnes, Catedrática de Derecho Procesal.

In 2000, the European Union adopted a Directive against discrimination on the grounds of racial or ethnic origin.

This book examines American solitary confinement - in which around 100,000 prisoners are held at any one time - and argues that under a moral reading of individual rights such punishment is not only a matter of public interest, but requires close constitutional scrutiny.

The third edition of The Principles of the Law of Restitution brings this widely cited and influential volume fully up to date.

Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994.

The "e;rule of law"e; stands at the heart of the American legal system.

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform.

This book focuses on queer people and their encounters with international law.

Decades before the overturning of Roe v.

This special issue of Studiesin Law, Politics, and Society aims to foster a dialogue that is inclusive,constructive, and innovative in order to lay the basis for evaluating theusefulness and impact of cultural expertise in modern litigation.

This book focuses on the fraught relationship between cultural heritage and intellectual property, in their common concern with the creative arts.

This book provides a range of perspectives on some of the most pressing contemporary challenges in EU environmental law and governance from some of today's leading European environmental academics and practitioners.

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence.